Getting started

Planning

Web site basics

Web development milestones Web 1.0, 2.0 etc

Web site technologies
From HTML to a CMS, what's best for you?

CMS - content management systems

Site planning / first client meeting

Search engine optimisation (SEO) strategy

Organising web site files

Defining & managing sites in Dreamweaver

Basic web page building steps

ISO file naming conventions

Using grids

Linking & embedding media files

Useful links

Web standards

www.w3.org Everything you need to know about the latest web standards

www.webstandards.org web standards stuff

End-user / browser stats

marketshare.hitslink.com/ Browser, OS etc usage stats

Desktop picture site building aid

Image to help you develop for different monitors.

PICT file for the Mac (20Kb)

BMP file for the PC (16Kb)

Linking

Absolute & relative links

Link types & techniques

Drop-down menus

Creating drop-down menus

CSS & Javascript menu examples

CSS

Concepts, help, tutorials

Images

jQuery slide shows

iFrame Image gallery

JavaScript image gallery

Image types

Native and interchange file formats

dpi, ppi & screen resolution

Bit depth

Colour & image modes

Image quality basics

Making GIFs and JPEGs (easy guide)

See also the DTP menu

jQuery & JavaScript

Explanation and examples

Text & typography

Copywriting

Web typography

Animation

Persistence of vision How we see

Flash

Flash animation tutorials

Adding Flash video to a web page

Audio

Adding audio and video to web site concepts

Preparing/compressing digital audio files

Adding audio to web sites

Uploading music Advice on using iTunes and download sites.

Advanced

Digital audio file formats

Forms

Making a simple web page form

Meta tags

Meta tags

Video concepts

More on essential video concepts

e-Commerce / Marketing

e-Commerce concepts & options for site builders

Marketing a site

Search engine optimisation (SEO) strategy

Publishing & uploading

Publishing a project

Hosting

Cross platform issues Mac & PC differences

Creating a favicon How to create a bookmark / favourite icon

Sites on discs

Making custom icons

Autorun files

READ ME files

Minimum system requirements

Search engine strategy

Search technology systems & search sites Search sites, indexes & directories explained

SEO (search engine optimisation)

Tips for searching the web